Tracks
17 Tracks
| Applications | There are only three kinds of software solutions businesses need: Ones that deliver business value better, ones that deliver business value faster and ones that deliver business value cheaper. The best ones do all three. Application leaders need to figure out how to provide this trifecta of software solutions in an increasingly complex development and management environment. From SOA to mashups to SaaS to cloud computing, the road to truly valuable software – solutions with worth you can prove – is difficult but navigable. | APP |
| Business Intelligence & Information Management | The world’s business environment has changed dramatically in the last year. CIOs and their leadership teams need to adapt to new business models, manage changes in business processes, make knowledge workers more productive and exploit information (both inside and outside the firewall) as a strategic asset. Exceptional leadership is needed for five key initiatives: 1) Business intelligence and performance management; 2) enterprise content management; 3) social software and collaboration; 4) enterprise information management; and 5) data management and integration. CIOs will either provide the leadership and investment that these initiatives require to transform their business, or their business will be operating in the dark using outdated information, tools, skills, processes and business models. | BIIM |
| Business Process Improvement | Improving business processes consistently ranks as the most important priority for CIOs and is a top priority for Symposium attendees this year. That’s not surprising, as process excellence contributes to a number of other business priorities, including customer acquisition and retention, risk management, worker productivity and, of course, the critical act of cost optimization. Our volatile macroeconomic environment highlights the importance of business process improvement and, for some enterprises, regaining control of critical processes will be a matter of survival. | BPI |
| Virtual Track: Cloud Computing | Cloud computing's impact is substantial and growing. We look at every facet of this emerging computing model in this collection of sessions throughout the week – from what it is, to when you should and shoudn't use it, to how you manage it, to its benefits and the inherent risks. | CC |
| CIO | CIOs face unprecedented challenges leading IT, needing to reduce costs while simultaneously delivering innovation to drive effectiveness. The CIO program at Symposium concentrates on the issues, decisions, needs and actions required for IT success. To succeed, CIOs must enhance IT performance through new tools and practices. Using these tools, CIOs will position IT and business expectations for IT now and in the future. The future requires defining new sources of IT-led innovation and competitive advantage. | CIO |
| Infrastructure & Operations – Communications | Networking and communications technologies and services are the lifeblood of successful organizations. Yet, like in all areas of IT today, the business is demanding cost-optimized network services that are flexible (e.g., MPLS), provide process improvements (e.g., unified communications), and increase worker productivity (e.g., mobile applications and solutions). Communications leaders must continue to drive business priorities through the application of these communications technologies. | COMMS |
| Virtual Track: Consumerization, Web 2.0 and Social Software | Friend or foe? How should you approach trends like consumerization and social computing? Banish them to protect the enterprise, or leverage them to innovate and grow? In this collection of sessions, we consider the benefits and risks of embracing consumerization, Web 2.0 and social software, and the opportunities lost in not embracing them. | CWSS |
| Enterprise Architecture | Enterprise architects in best-practice organizations are responding to today’s challenging environment by using the tools of strategy to manage IT costs while providing a platform for innovation. By moving beyond the “old school” obsession with granular standard setting and instead focusing on information exchange and business process management, enterprise architects are learning to love social computing and user-centric technology, not see them as threats. In addition, enterprise architects’ holistic, business-first perspective is helping to supercharge the development of new business models and provide more precise measures for business value delivery. | EA |
| Virtual Track: Emerging Trends and Technologies | You can't make wise investments today without a solid understanding of what will be, or at least what could be. In this collection of sessions, we look at a variety of emerging trends and technologies, assess how likely they are to endure and impact your enterprise, and help you prepare to capitalize on them. | ET&T |
| Virtual Track: Governance and Compliance | In challenging, volatile and highly scrutinized times, governance and compliance become all that more important – and a lot more challenging. In this collection of sessions, we look at best practices across governance and compliance initiatives. | G&C |
| Virtual Track: Green IT | Whether the "green" you seek from green IT is environmental consciousness, sustainability or simply the green of cost savings, this collection of sessions will help you understand what's real and what's hype when it comes to green IT. | GREEN |
| Infrastructure & Operations – Data Center, Client Computing and IT Operations | Combine virtualization, consolidation, automation and cloud computing – and throw in a recession – and you’ve got the makings for huge expectations of cost savings delivered by infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders. Of course, you also can’t falter when it comes to improving service quality and increasing agility. And what about upgrading those aging PCs? Such is the plight of today’s I&O leaders. | I&O |
| Virtual Track: Modernization | It's been a rough year for modernization projects, as cost optimization has come into conflict with the expense of these complex projects. In this collection of sessions, we'll look at the importance of modernization efforts, how you justify investments in them, and how to get stalled projects moving again. | MOD |
| Virtual Track: Pattern-Based Strategy | With hindsight, the early signals that form patterns of change are easy to spot. So why don't business leaders "see it coming" more often? The answer lies not in simply knowing more. There's already too much information available that's overlooked, ignored or underutilized, as the general lack of commercial preparedness for the current economic situation showed. The solution is to implement a framework to proactively seek, detect and act on signals that form patterns in the marketplace. This is what Gartner calls pattern-based strategy. | PBS |
| Program & Portfolio Management | Program and portfolio management leaders have extraordinary influence over what actually gets done in business technology – or, at least, you should. After all, it’s your job to value, prioritize and then see through your enterprise’s key initiatives. In today’s challenging economic environment, valuing, prioritizing and seeing through projects and programs is more challenging than ever, and requires new approaches. | PPM |
| Security & Risk Management | The irony of great security, risk management and business continuity programs is that they’re appreciated by the business only when something goes wrong or, ideally, a great wrong is averted. Part of this is the immature treatment of these disciplines, but part of it lies in security and risk management leaders’ failure to clearly define and articulate the business value of what they do. You need to create a proactive program that appropriately addresses risk, meets compliance requirements, and is directly linked to business performance. | SRM |
| Sourcing & Vendor Relationships | The only nice thing about a recession is the shift to a buyer’s market. Are you capitalizing on that? This is a natural time to refresh your sourcing strategy and reassess your sourcing engagements with strategic vendors and service providers, to clearly understand whether or not you’re getting out of those relationships what you’d expected. And it’s also time to consider the wide variety of alternative sourcing models emerging in the market (e.g., SaaS, infrastructure utilities), to see if they would fit your needs as well or better. | SVR |
